Chapter 837: Acting Separately

Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins: “????”

When the energy shockwave from the Demon Lord’s self-destruction collided with the pagoda summoned by the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins.

The Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins was shocked.

The pagoda summoned by the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins was at the outermost layer.

Logically speaking, when it faced the shockwave from the Demon Lord’s self-destruction head-on, this pagoda would be instantly shattered.

However, it wasn’t.

The pagoda was not damaged at all. It didn’t even have the slightest scratch.

Not even the paint was scuffed off.

The pagoda’s paint… whatever, that’s the point; the pagoda was completely unharmed.

The shockwave from the Demon Lord’s explosion was just an empty shell without any power.

It looked like a bomb from the outside, but in reality, it was just a balloon that burst with a poke.

At this moment, the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins felt as if someone had just pointed a gun at his head, and he was ready for them to pull the trigger.

However, after they pulled the trigger, they just squirted water in his face.

Despite all precautions and calculations, the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins still fell victim to the Demon Lord’s trickery!

“Damn it!”

“Got fooled!” The Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins couldn’t help but curse.

Although the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins was furious inside, he was helpless.

The main thing was that the Demon Lord’s fake self-destruction was identical to a real one.

The Demon Lord’s body was torn apart in the explosion, leaving the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins no choice but to believe it!

Thinking of this, the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins hurriedly looked in the direction of the Demon Lord’s self-destruction.

He saw that the Demon Lord’s body was indeed torn into pieces.

Head, ears, nose, eyes, hands, arms, feet, heart, liver…

Even every piece of the Demon Lord’s flesh, every drop of blood.

In short, everything about the Demon Lord had turned into a pile of fragments.

Despite the entire body being divided and torn apart as if by a thousand cuts.

However, the Demon Lord was not dead.

There was life embedded in every piece of his flesh.

Even the energy within his body still existed in these separated pieces of flesh, remaining concentrated.

At this point, the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins finally figured out what the self-destruction was about.

In a normal self-destruction, the body explodes and releases the internal energy, aiming to perish together with the enemy.

The Demon Lord’s fake self-destruction involved the body exploding, but the energy returned to the separated pieces of flesh.

“Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins, you were deceived!”

“This move is called the Celestial Demon Dissolving Technique; it can disassemble and also reassemble.”

“A few days later, when my body is reassembled, I will come back for revenge!” After delivering this threat, the Demon Lord immediately fled in all directions.

Watching the Demon Lord flee in different directions, the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins did not pursue.

It wasn’t that the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins didn’t want to chase, nor that he couldn’t catch up.

It was because the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins didn’t know how to chase.

The Demon Lord!

He fled in scattered directions.

What does fleeing in scattered directions mean?

It means the Demon Lord’s head, nose, eyes, mouth, heart, liver, forearms, thighs…

Even each piece of his flesh and every drop of blood, all fled in different directions.

One Demon Lord, escaping along hundreds, if not thousands, of escape routes?

These niche terms nearly burned out the CPU of the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins.

How to chase this?

It’s impossible to chase at all.

Unless the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins splits himself into thousands of pieces, each chasing a separate piece.

The problem is, the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins doesn’t know this Celestial Demon Dissolving Technique of the Demon Lord.

With no other option, the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins could only let the Demon Lord escape.

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Great Burial Heaven Temple.

After the Buddha retrieved the Black Gate, he couldn’t help but sigh in relief.

However, after retrieving the Black Gate, the Buddha began to worry about the Demon Lord’s safety.

The Demon Lord was utterly furious; he was angry that the Demon Lord wouldn’t heed advice.

He had urged the Demon Lord to retreat multiple times, but the Demon Lord stubbornly refused to do so.

“This Demon Lord, repeatedly ignoring advice, who knows if he’s dead or alive!” the Buddha angrily said through gritted teeth.

“I’m alive!”

Suddenly, the Demon Lord’s voice rang out behind the Buddha.

The Buddha turned his head and saw it was the Demon Lord who had returned…

No, it should be the Demon Lord’s head.

Moreover, the Demon Lord’s head that had returned was extremely horrifying.

It had no eyes, ears, mouth, or any of those parts.

The eyes, mouth, and ears had not yet returned, but a skull had come back first.

After the Celestial Demon Dissolving Technique disintegrated the Demon Lord’s body, his soul resided in the skull.

“What happened to you?” the Buddha asked the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord resentfully said, “Just one move short, just one move!”

“If the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins had arrived two or three seconds later, I would have killed the Yin Emperor!”

“I had no choice; with my severely injured body, I was no match for the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins and had to use the Celestial Demon Dissolving Technique to escape.”

The Buddha gave the Demon Lord a fierce glare and irritably said, “I told you to withdraw, but you refused, and now you’re in this situation because of your recklessness and impulsiveness?”

Hearing this, the Demon Lord felt indignant and roared, “It’s all your damn fault!”

“How dare you blame me; if you had delayed the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins for another two or three seconds, I would have taken out the Yin Emperor!”

“Two or three seconds!”

“You do realize that if not for mere seconds, the Black Gate would have been taken back to Heaven and Earth by Lin Yuan!” The Buddha argued back.

“The Black Gate?”

“Is this gate your father? Why do you treasure it so much?”

“I’ve been injured like this and can’t recover for a short period!”

“By the time I recover, the Yin Emperor will have recovered as well, and then, two against two, we still won’t be able to win against them.”

“Not being able to win against them means not obtaining the Underworld, so who will help us seize the myriad races from Heaven and Earth?”

“Without the myriad races of Heaven and Earth, there’s no flesh and blood, and without flesh and blood, what do you need this useless gate for?” The Demon Lord roared, but there was reason in his argument.

What the Demon Lord said made some sense; now that the Black Gate is secured, but without flesh and blood, it’s just an ornament!

As they spoke, the tentacle covered in mouths again extended from the Black Gate and silently wrapped around the back of the Demon Lord’s skull.

It seemed that this tentacle covered in mouths had its eyes on the Demon Lord’s skull.

The Demon Lord was facing away from the Black Gate, whereas the Buddha was facing the Black Gate.

The Demon Lord didn’t see this scene, but the Buddha saw it clearly.

Upon seeing this, a bold idea suddenly surfaced in the Buddha’s mind.

Flesh and blood.

They did not lack flesh and blood to sacrifice to this Black Gate.

The Demon Lord, isn’t he the best flesh and blood?

The energy contained in the flesh and blood of a Tier One Powerhouse is far superior to that of those disciples previously sacrificed.

According to the amount of flesh and blood needed to release a Tier One Chaos Star Beast before, the Demon Lord’s flesh and blood could release at least three to five Tier One Chaos Star Beasts.

This ally Demon Lord, time and again, ignored his advice and contradicted him.

In that case, let the Demon Lord serve his final purpose.

Once this idea came to mind, the Buddha’s thoughts became unstoppable.